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Mario Tama/Getty Images Be careful when you go for a swim in the neighborhood pool this summer. The parasitic infection cryptosporidium — known as crypto — is on the rise in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The parasite is the most common cause of diarrhea linked to swimming pools and water parks, and it spreads when people swallow something that has come into contact…

Intense as it may be, speculation on who will replace Dale Earnhardt Jr. when he retires at the end of the NASCAR season remains just that, for now, but NASCAR’s most popular driver has established his own favorite. If Earnhardt had his druthers, Alex Bowman would be driving the No. 88 Cup Series car next season for Hendrick Motorsports. At least that’s what Earnhardt told fans near the end of…

Richard Childress Racing announced changes to its crew chief lineup Monday morning, naming Justin Alexander as a replacement for Richard “Slugger” Labbe with the No. 3 Chevrolet team and driver Austin Dillon.   Alexander moves over from RCR’s No. 2 Chevrolet in the NASCAR XFINITY Series. His first race atop the No. 3 pit box will be Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600 (6 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) at Charlotte…

Danica Patrick, the Hollywood Hotel broadcaster for the June race at Pocono Raceway, being interviewed by ESPN back in 2012—when the network actually covered NASCAR. Photo credit: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images for True Speed Communication In June, things are going to get pretty weird in NASCAR broadcasting. For the first time, the entire broadcast team will be active drivers—the booth, the pit-road reporters and everyone else. Fox Sports, the broadcaster for…

Danica Patrick, the Hollywood Hotel broadcaster for the June race at Pocono Raceway, being interviewed by ESPN back in 2012—when the network actually covered NASCAR. Photo credit: Tyler Barrick/Getty Images for True Speed Communication In June, things are going to get pretty weird in NASCAR broadcasting. For the first time, the entire broadcast team will be active drivers—the booth, the pit-road reporters and everyone else. Fox Sports, the broadcaster for…

Teen NASCAR drivers Harrison Burton and Todd Gilliland are both from North Carolina and are sons of men who raced at the Cup Series level. The pair both started racing cars at age 5, when many children are learning to ride a bicycle. Now Burton, 16, and Gilliland, 17, are members of the 2017 NASCAR Next class, a watch list of nine rising stars climbing the NASCAR ladder. “The NASCAR…

Image copyright EPA Image caption It is Sweden’s 10th world title Sweden has won the ice hockey world championship, beating favourites Canada in a dramatic penalty shootout. The teams were tied at 1-1 after three periods in Cologne, Germany, with Victor Hedman scoring for the Swedes and Canada’s Ryan O’Reilly equalising. The overtime brought no goals, but the Scandinavians then were twice on target in the shootout, while the North…

The Rio Olympics experienced their fair share of problems last summer (green pool water, controversial boxing judges, basic plumbing). Now nearly nine months after the Games ended, it looks like organizers in Rio de Janeiro are still experiencing some hiccups. The latest issue has to do with medals handed out to more than 130 winners – they’re rusting, chipping or as Agence France-Presse put it, “falling to pieces.” “We’re seeing…

GIF via NASCAR How Trevor Bayne kept his car on the pavement and out of the wall in Saturday night’s Monster Energy Open race, I still don’t know. Trevor Bayne’s No. 6 car was sent into a crazy rollercoaster of countersteer after Danica Patrick’s No. 10 made contact with his left-rear fender during Saturday’s race before the All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The save is so impressive, it’s a…

“Caught the [Swiss team] Katusha-Alpecin … dumping raw sewage from their RV on the side of highway 330,” the YouTube account of Ryan Patrick Early captioned the video, which appears to show two men outside an RV spraying liquid on the ground. Early noted the highway where the men allegedly emptied their team’s septic tank runs adjacent to “running springs,” and that they tried to hide their misdeed by spraying it…

Kyle Busch used a bold three-wide pass for the lead Saturday night to win NASCAR’s annual All-Star race for the first time. Although the race does not count in the standings, it was Busch‘s first Cup victory of the season and first at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch also won the Truck Series race Friday night, but the victory Saturday was worth a cool $1 million. Busch dove low around Brad…

11:56 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment CONCORD, N.C. — On the 25th anniversary of an incredible evening of racing dubbed “One Hot Night,” NASCAR tried to do something to rekindle the dramatics for its all-star event. It didn’t get it. The 2017 version of the Monster Energy All-Star Race will go down in history as “One Hot Blight.” Kyle Busch pockets $1M with All-Star triumph…

Screencap via TSN NASCAR introduced multiple tire compounds for tonight’s All-Star race with the stipulation that all four new stickier green “option” tires must go on at the same time. But they didn’t say that all four had to be left on or pulled off at the same time, as Clint Bowyer’s No. 14 team pointed out during tonight’s race. During Stage 3 of 4, Bowyer came into the pits…

The gold, silver and bronze Olympic and paralympic medals for the Rio Olympics started off nice and shiny. (Vanderlei Almeida/AFP/Getty Images) The Rio Olympics experienced their fair share of problems last summer (green pool water, controversial boxing judges, basic plumbing). Now nearly nine months after the Games ended, it looks like organizers in Rio de Janeiro are still experiencing some hiccups. The latest issue has to do with medals handed out to more…

Why Northwestern: I had a lot of choices to make. UGA, UVA, Northwestern, etc. I did not even see Northwestern coming. I went on my trip, the last trip I took, as an official visit. I ended up making the decision because a lot of my family lives there and it is just a great campus and a great team. I feel like I could be a leader because we…

On Saturday, NASCAR driver Aric Almirola’s No. 43 Ford twisted into a fiery contortion in a horrifying crash at the Go Bowling 400 in Kansas. He was cut out of the car and airlifted to the University of Kansas Medical Center. His team released a statement on Sunday revealing that Almirola had fractured his T5 vertebra. On Wednesday, three days after his release from the hospital, Almirola walked very stiffly…

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North Korean athletes will be allowed to cross the demilitarised zone into South Korea to compete at next year’s Winter Olympics, according to Pyeongchang 2018 chief Lee Hee-beom.  The Korean peninsula has been split by the 4km wide no-go zone since 1953 with millions of troops massed either side. There is no movement of people in either direction but in a symbolic act the Games’ organising committee president Lee said…